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  • And, as he bore her out of the high tower and descended the unlighted, interminable stairs of stone, he heard her weeping against his breast and softly asking intercession in behalf of a dead young man who had tried to be to her a "Kamerad" -- as he understood it -- including the entire gamut, from amorous beast to fiend.

    Barbarians 1899

  • Eight of the Germans, piteously bleating "Kamerad" stood against the wall near the door, their hands stretched high above their heads.

    The Apartment Next Door William Andrew Johnston

  • Hands were being raised and cries of "Kamerad" heard from every side.

    The Greater Love George T. McCarthy

  • Their moving spirit being wiped out, the Huns lost whatever heart they had had, and went through their "Kamerad" exercise without further ado.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

  • You remember how they cried "'Kamerad" in those last three months of the last war or whenever they were cornered.

    Hitler Holds All Europe 1941

  • Some of you remember how stubbornly they fought their machine-guns in the last war, but how they whined "Kamerad" and grovelled when you got at them.

    Close to the War 1940

  • One of our brothers from the other side said to me today, "If the Germans get past the British navy, there will be only one thing for us today, -- you Canadians and we of the United States will have to get together and fight this thing through," and I said "If they get past the British Navy, we can hold up our hands and yell 'Kamerad'."

    War Impressions 1918

  • I not had the presence of mind to shout "Kamerad," which I had heard was the customary thing, I dare say I should have been shot.

    More Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Here and there a too eager man was spitted on a German bayonet; here and there also a pair of arms went up, and the hated word "Kamerad" smote the ear with a false note.

    With Haig on the Somme D. H. Parry 1915

  • "Kamerad," he repeated and shrugged his shoulders as if that were enough.

    Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

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